ReCAAP ISC Special Report is to alert the shipping industry on the increase of the number of the incidents, provides an insight of the incidents, modus operandi of the perpetrators and actions taken

A team of negotiators specialising in forgotten hostages secured the release of the three Iranian crewmen after their vessel was hijacked in 2015

CGPCS Chair condemns the unacceptable premature release of convicted Somali pirates which contravenes the Articles of Agreement signed by Seychelles and Somalia in 2011.

Federalists High Court in Nigeria convicted 3 of 9 suspected persons in the hijack of Equatorial Guinea-flagged vessel 21 March 2020, when they demanded a ransom of $2 million for kidnapped crew.

Dialogue comes on the back of almost two-fold increase in incidents of piracy and sea robbery from January to June 2020 compared to the same period in 2019

IMB reports that violent attacks against ships and their crews has risen in 2020. 77 seafarers taken hostage or kidnapped for ransom since January

The ReCAAP ISC & Philippine Coast Guard warns of a second Abu Sayyaf Group plan to conduct kindapping activities in areas in the Sulu Sea in the Sabah region of Malaysia.

The ReCAAP ISC & Philippine Coast Guard warns of Abu Sayyaf Group plans to conduct kindapping activities in areas in the Sulu Sea in the Sabah region of Malaysia.